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September 6, 2025
Northeastern Illinois
Join Plants of Concern and Forest Preserve District of Cook County staff to learn field monitoring methods at Orland Grassland, a state Land and Water Reserve with extensive grassland bird habitat. Click here to RSVP. This event will be...
Welcome to our newest updating webpage: "What's...
Posted August 5, 2025
Article by Grant Fessler.In early June, native plant...
Posted June 23, 2025
Northeastern Illinois
The Chicago Sun-Times published an op-ed penned by...
Posted January 10, 2024
October 28, 2023
Northeastern Illinois
Plants of Concern would not exist without the vibrant,...
Posted October 5, 2023
Northeastern Illinois
Join Plants of Concern staff to learn how to monitor...
Posted August 4, 2023
Northeastern Illinois
by Grant Fessler, Plants of Concern Research Assistant,...
Posted July 20, 2023
Northeastern Illinois
See position description and apply through the Chicago...
Posted June 22, 2023
Northeastern Illinois
See position descriptions and apply through the Chicago...
Posted February 24, 2023
February 2, 2023
Plants of Concern hosted an Annual Recap of the 2022...
Posted January 23, 2023
On June 17-18, 2022, Plants of Concern volunteers and...
Posted August 8, 2022
January 26, 2022
Watch the recording of this event Plants of Concern staff...
Posted January 26, 2022
A Case Story by Katherine Accettura, Southern Illinois...
Posted January 19, 2022
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